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			<h1>My camera bugged up on me</h1>
			<p>Day 00043: Sunday, 2015 April 19</p>
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	For some reason, the game Flare is not in my brother&apos;s Debian repository, but it is in mine.
	We are both running Debian 8, though I&apos;m on the 32 bit version and he is on the 64 bit version.
	I can&apos;t seem to find any rhyme or reason.
	I get booted from OFTC whenever I join the network, so I&apos;m not able to access <a href="ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697/%23debian-next">#debian-next</a> to inquire at this time.
	My brother unfortunately wants to switch to Ubuntu, citing that it is &quot;easier to use&quot; due to the inclusion of the Ubuntu Software Center.
	Personally, I had issues with the Ubuntu Software Center back before I discovered freedom.
	Namely, many packages wouldn&apos;t show up in it, or if they did show up, would only show up on some installations.
	More importantly, there&apos;s the issue of Ubuntu activating the nonfree repositories by default.
	It seems there&apos;s no talking him out of it though, and it&apos;s his machine to decide what to do with.
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	I&apos;ve found that lately, my Replicant device&apos;s camera doesn&apos;t focus like it used to.
	Photographs all come out blurry and the manual focus option doesn&apos;t appear to work.
	I tried hitting the &quot;rotate camera&quot; option (not thinking it would help focus, but to test it none the less), and the whole camera application quit on me, stating that it couldn&apos;t connect to the camera hardware.
	Starting the camera application again made it automatically shut down again with the same error message, and rebooting didn&apos;t help.
	I thought I would have to wipe the device to fix the camera, and feared even that might not help.
	However, simply wiping the camera application&apos;s data solved the problem.
	As I write this paragraph, I tried the camera again, and it is focusing perfectly.
	I&apos;m not sure what determines if it will focus or not.
	Perhaps it is the lighting?
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	I took a few days off from dealing with political issues, but it seems that the <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s are at it again.
	I&apos;m told they have issued a total of five lawsuits and counting, and are additionally <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/republicans-seek-fast-track-repeal-of-net-neutrality/">trying to convince Congress to repeal the <abbr title="Federal Communications Commission">FCC</abbr>&apos;s decision using a Congressional Review Act</a>.
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	I&apos;m considering setting up a Web design operation here, or possibly at a new domain.
	I don&apos;t have time to start on the designing at the moment, but I looked into getting a certificate that won&apos;t throw errors in Web browsers.
	I tried to register an account with StartSSL, but their server seems to be having issues at the moment.
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